Ferdinand de Saussure

Noun

Meaning

Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Saussure de Saussure

Examples

The modern sense of "literary theory," however, dates only to approximately the 1950s, when the structuralist linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure began strongly to influence English language literary criticism. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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